The Merced County Sheriff's Department has launched an animal cruelty investigation into the area's bullfighting organizations after confiscating dozens of spears used to stab the bulls at a Monday night event for the Turlock Pentecost Association.

The Keyes man arrested for the burglary at the Turlock Veterans of Foreign War Hall in April found himself back in custody after leading Stanislaus County Sheriff's deputies on a pursuit that ended with his vehicle in a canal.